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London said that Rosset did not agree with his conduct of the defense...
...request came early in the morning from attorney Ephraim London, the New York lawyer who represents both Miller and the publishers of the book, Grove Press, Inc. London asked permission to withdraw from the case on behalf of Grove Press' president, Barney Rosset, but continue in the proceedings as Miller's representative...
...statement read by London, Rosset called the issue of Tropic of Cancer's obscenity irrelevant. The real issue is "whether Henry Miller wrote as a serious artist and produced a work of literary merit." London said he agreed with Rosset "in principle," but felt that he should be allowed to present the defense as he saw it. In effect, Rosset was saying that the case ought to rest solely on Grove Press' constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments...
While agreeing with Rosset that "any law purporting to suppress a book is unconstitutional," London was nonetheless prepared to defend Tropic of Cancer against the Attorney General's charge...
Among the native Bellykness dancers were B. W. Brain, Francis Morgan, Philip O'Brien, James Oliver, Elbert Osserman, and Frank Williams, while Emil Wold was the cannibal king and his potboiler cook was portrayed by A. H. Rosset...